Dominique Gonzales-Foerster - Exhibition Catalogue (CATALOGUES DU M.N.A.M)

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, 1887-2058 displays an 'open' timeline from 1887 to 2058, and extends the idea of the retrospective by combining different centuries and climates. The exhibition begins in the late 19th century; journeys through the experiments of the 20th century, and projects viewers into landscapes and interiors in turn desert - like or tropical, biographical or dystopian. This combination of parallel realities and stage sets - where the genres of landscape, portrait and period rooms co-exist - becomes a fictional house with numerous entrances, constructed so that viewers experience the sensations of outdoor and indoor, ideas of identity and fiction, the present moment and a journey through time. Sometimes stage, sometimes playground and sometimes introspective narratives, the rooms, films and appearances of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster are anchored in living memories of cinema, literature and the open structures of architecture and music: all ways of exploring the limits of the possible in art. Like an opera or a musical, the exhibition brings to life all kinds of cinematographic, literary and scientific presences, to create a world inhabited by sensations, stories and quotations. The exhibition is an identification of the artist, the work and the viewer all at once.

Year

2015

Language

French

Publisher

Centre Pompidou

Editions

1

Pages

223

ISBN

9782844267016

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